February 2012
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regreso a la tierra
Mientras preparo una entrada comprensiva de El bolsón y bariloche, tengo pensamientos distintos. Pasó un mes, un mes entero desde que llegué. Pasé 16 días en Buenos Aires, 6 en El Bolsón, y 11 más en Bariloche. Mañana Elise y yo vamos al norte a Santiago para nuestra orientación el miércoles. Llego a la parte del viaje cuando me establezco y tomo clases, cuando todo siente un poco más...
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so Argentina!!
Argentina is special! I’ve only been here for a month, but here’s what I’ve come up with
Mate. They love it, they drink it constantly. Hot days, cold days, in the park, at home, in the car.. Mate etiquette: it’s passed around in a circle; saying gracias when someone hands you the gourd means you don’t want it.
Tango. duh. The music is ...
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la llamada de Buenos Aires
On Thursday afternoon (Feb. 2), despite several bumps in the road, Elise and I got on a bus to El Bolsón, Patagonian hippie paradise. Buenos Aires did everything in its power to prevent us from leaving – we almost couldn’t buy our bus tickets because we didn’t have the right documents, then because we didn’t have cash, then I overslept, we were late for the bus, couldn’t find the depot, and al...
I´M IN EL BOLSÓN
January 2012
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día 11: herida
The southern hemisphere has whisked away my mind, turned my body inside out. I am more red and burned each day, more sleep-deprived, my feet covered in aches and blisters and new calluses, my stomach filled with not vegetables, but meat and beer. This is all okay, i am pretty sure, because even though my head feels like it is sinking through my body and slipping down through the floor,...
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an early night
I am bouncier than ever before. No, not springing from couch to couch yet, but it is true that I will bounce all over this town before I leave in ten days (ten? wow!). From Maipu in the centro to ten blocks over past 9 de julio and then to Santa Fe in Palermo and on and on and ON!
What I mean is that I am positively filled with energy, inspiring motivating energy that mobilizes me to do almost...
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hace calor
I arrived on Tuesday to a half-empty city, or at least that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The masses have gone on vacation, usually to Mar del Plata, a nearby beach town, or Uruguay, an hour across the river.
It is hot, absolutely don’t-wear-pants hot, and definitely sweat-dripping-everywhere-embarrassingly hot. But the streets are filled with people and cars - drivers are...
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i leave now
This is how things have gone so far:
Order travel books
Mumble to myself in Spanish
Buy backpack & camera
Scour Couchsurfing for cool people to stay with
Set up countless doctors’ appointments
Make extensive packing lists
Envision myself NOT sucking at tango!
Scavenge for things on packing list
Let nostalgia hit for a couple seconds and then turn my back to it – EEK!
Worry...
December 2011
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“I’ve spent a lot of time debating that: “What am I trying to do?...”
– Beck
(reminds me of Ira Glass’s age old advice)
November 2011
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“You can be very wild and still be very wise.”
– I can’t believe I’m quoting Yoko Ono…
October 2011
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i cannot find the proper punctuation marks for my...
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wose
A space for original me-terial, Sofia zone, decorate it with all of the things that are this wet haired creature with the dog on er feet, particularly beaded bracelets flonase exposed buttcheeks temporary tat-uwa-hays empty earholes this book belongs to the unicorn! The unicorn is me, probably, or else I’m about to get a run for my money… should I suspect the dog with the middle part?...
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rain and rushdie
the man himself, ushered in by a sky of grey and a town of wet.
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most importantly I am going to Chile
next semester, for many many months. I am filled with thrill and adrenaline and Spanish. I will live with a host family in Viña del Mar from late February through mid-July and take courses at la Pontificia Unversidad Católica de Valparaíso. (I may shit myself just looking at pictures of where I will soon live.) In anticipation, I MUST:
Start talking to more chilenos to learn about their weird...
Marijuana Wine Is A Real Thing, Apparently →
villagevoice:
And it doesn’t taste like bong water! Bloody Maryjanes for everyone!
WOW NPR, THANKS!
Badkid
whoishaleyshaw:
A net-art project that i coded for my integrated media class addressing memory within oberlin’s inebriated nightlife enthusiasts
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try it out. omg, yr so drunk
xo,
haley
mah friend made this and it is cool. ober-nitelife
Reframing Mexico →
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“Life is 2 things. First, life is a boat. All day long you row your boat. And...”
– John Patrick Shanley, writer of Doubt
September 2011
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Watchour purple boinkers